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Curriculum Vitae 7 January 2020

Richard Khoury, Ph.D., Ing., P.Eng.

1. Personal Information

Business address Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office 3945, Building Adrien-Pouliot

1065 Avenue de la Médecine

Université Laval

Quebec City (QC) G1V 0A6 CANADA

Phone 1 (418) 656-2131 x7811

Fax 1 (418) 656-2324

E-mail [email protected]

Website http://www2.ift.ulaval.ca/~rikho/

Date of birth September 18, 1979

Place of birth Québec City, Québec, Canada

Citizenship Canadian

Languages spoken and written French (mother tongue)

English (fluent)

2. Post-Secondary Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Waterloo

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory

2007

Master of Science (M.Sc.) Laval University


Computer Vision and Systems Laboratory

2004

Bachelor of Engineering (B.Ing.) Laval University


2002

CEGEP Diploma (DEC) Mérici College

1998



3. Employment History

Academic Employment

Associate Professor July 2016 to present

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Université Laval

Associate Professor July 2013 to June 2016

Department of Software Engineering

Lakehead University

Assistant Professor August 2008 to June 2013

Department of Software Engineering

Lakehead University

Post-Doctoral Fellow January 2008 to July 2008

Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Laboratory


University of Waterloo

Seasonal Instructor May 2007 to August 2008


University of Waterloo

Teaching Assistant September 2002 to December 2003


Laval University

Teaching Assistant August 2000 to September 2002

Computer and Telecommunication Service

Laval University

Business Employment

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) October 2010 to October 2012

Bitcold Technology inc.



4. Publications

Peer-Reviewed Books

1. R. Khoury, D. W. Harder, Numerical Methods and Modelling for Engineering, Springer,

2016, ISBN 978-3-319-21175-6.

2. R. Khoury, C. Drummond (eds.), Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Lecture

Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 9673, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-34110-1.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. B. J. Oommen, R. Khoury, A. Schmidt, “Text Classification Using “Anti”-Bayesian

Quantile Statistics-Based Classifiers”, Transactions on Computational Intelligence XXV,

N. T. Nguyen (ed.), Springer LNCS, September 2016, pp 101-126.

2. J. Li, S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, R. Khoury, “Hierarchical Classification in Text Mining for

Sentiment Analysis”, in Soft Computing: A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and

Applications, Springer, September 2016, Volume 20, Issue 9, pp 3411–3420.

3. R. Khoury, F. Sapford, “Latin Word Stemming using Wiktionary”, in Digital Scholarship

in the Humanities, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2016, Pages 368–373.

4. R. Khoury, D. Hayes, “Alliteration and character focus in the York Plays”, in Digital

Medievalist, Vol. 10, ISSN: 1715-0736, October 2015,

https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/10.16995/dm.59/.

5. C. Wei, R. Khoury, S. Fong, “Web 2.0 Recommendation Service by Multi-Collaborative

Filtering Trust Network Algorithm”, in the Information Systems Frontiers, Volume 15,

Issue 4, August 2013, pp. 533-551.

6. M. AlemZadeh, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Query Classification using Wikipedia’s Category

Graph”, in the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, Volume 4,

Number 3, August 2012, pp. 207-220.

7. J. Luo, J. Kivinen, J. Malo, R. Khoury, “Architecture of a Cloud-Based Social

Networking News Site”, in the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence,

Volume 4, Number 3, August 2012, pp. 227-233.

8. R. Khoury, “Sentence Clustering Using Parts-of-Speech”, in the International Journal of

Information Engineering and Electronic Business, Volume 4, Number 1, February 2012,

pp. 1-9.

9. N. Nematollahi, R. Khoury, “A Case Study in Key Measuring Software”, in the

International Journal of Image, Graphics and Signal Processing, Volume 4, Number 1,

February 2012, pp. 1-11.



10. R. Khoury, “Query Classification using Wikipedia”, in the International Journal of

Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Volume 5, Number 2, April 2011, pp.143-

163.

11. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Domain Representation using Possibility Theory: An

Exploratory Study”, in IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Volume 16, Issue 6,

December 2008, pp. 1531-1541.

12. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Keyword Extraction Rules Based on a Part-Of-Speech

Hierarchy”, in the International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication,

Volume 2, Number 2, April 2008, pp. 138-153.

13. R. Khoury, F. Karray, Y. Sun, M. Kamel, O. Basir, “Semantic Understanding of General

Linguistic Items by Means of Fuzzy Set Theory”, in the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy

Systems, Volume 15, Issue 5, October 2007, pp. 757-771.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. E. Brassard-Gourdeau, R. Khoury, “Subversive Toxicity Detection using Sentiment

Information”, in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW3

ACL2019), 1 August 2019, Florence (Italy), pp. 1-10.

2. M. AlMousa, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “NLP-Enriched Automatic Video Segmentation”,

in Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems

(CMCS18), 10-12 May 2018, Rabat (Morocco).

3. U. Coté-Allard, G. Dubé, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, B. Gosselin, F. Laviolette, “Time

Adaptive Dual Particle Swarm Optimization”, in Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE Congress

on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 5-8 June 2017, San Sebastian (Spain).

4. S. Zong, R. Khoury, R. Benlamri, “Local and Global Influence on Twitter”, in Advances

in Artificial Intelligence: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10233, M.

Mouhoub and P. Langlais (eds.), pp.45-50. Proceedings of the 30th Canadian Conference

on Artificial Intelligence, 16-19 May 2017, Edmonton (Canada).

5. L. Gan, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, “Improved Sentiment Classification by Multi-modal

Fusion”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Third International Conference on Big Data

Computing Service and Applications, 6-10 April 2017, San Francisco (USA), pp. 11-16.

6. V. Jahjah, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, “Word Normalization Using Phonetic Signatures”,

in Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 9673,

R. Khoury and C. Drummond (eds.), pp.180-185. Proceedings of the 29th Canadian

Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 31 May-3 June 2016, Victoria (Canada).

7. J. Bergeron, A. Schmidt, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne “Building User Interest Profiles

Using DBpedia In A Question Answering System”, in the Proceedings of the 29th

International FLAIRS Conference, 16-18 May 2016, Key Largo (USA), pp. 14-19.



8. R. Khoury, “Microtext Normalization using Probably-Phonetically-Similar Word

Discovery”, in Proceedings of the Eight International Workshop on Selected Topics in

Mobile and Wireless Computing (part of the 11th IEEE International Conference on

Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications), 19-21 October

2015, Abu Dhabi (UAE), pp. 392-399.

9. B. J. Oommen, R. Khoury, A. Schmidt, “Text Classification Using Novel "Anti-

Bayesian" Techniques”, in Computational Collective Intelligence, M. Núñez, N.T.

Nguyen, D. Camacho, B. Trawiński (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol.

9329, Springer 2015, pp. 3-17. Keynote speech at the 7th International Conference on

Collective Intelligence, 21-23 September 2015, Madrid (Spain).

10. R. Khoury, “Phonetic Normalization of Microtext”, in the Proceedings of the 2015

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and

Mining, 25-28 August 2015, Paris (France), pp. 1600-1601.

11. U. Côté Allard, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, J. Bergeron, F. Laviolette, A. Bergeron-

Guyard, “Optimizing Question-Answering Systems Using Genetic Algorithms”, in the

Proceedings of the 28th International FLAIRS Conference, 18-20 May 2015, Hollywood,

(USA), pp. 32-37.

12. H. Chinaei, L. Lamontagne, F. Laviolette, R. Khoury, “A Topic Model Scoring Approach

for Personalized QA Systems”, in Text, Speech and Dialogue, P. Sojka, A. Horák, I.

Kopeček, K. Pala (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 8655, Springer

2014, pp. 84-92. 17th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Pilsen,

Czech Republic, September 2014.

13. J. Li, S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, R. Khoury, “Hierarchical Classification in Text Mining for

Sentiment Analysis”, in the Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Soft

Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI2014), New Delhi, India, 26-27 September

2014.

14. L. Lamontagne, F. Laviolette, R. Khoury, A. Bergeron-Guyard, “A Framework for

Building Adaptive Intelligent Virtual Assistants”, in the Proceedings of the 13th IASTED

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria,

17-19 February 2014.

15. S. Fong, Y. Zhuang, J. Li, R. Khoury, “Sentiment Analysis of Online News using

MALLET”, in the Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Computational

and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2013), New Delhi, India, 24-26 August 2013, pp.301-

304.



16. S. Fong, M. G. Da Costa Jr, R. Khoury, “Air Cargo Scheduling Using Genetic

Algorithms”, in the Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Computational

and Business Intelligence (ISCBI 2013), New Delhi, India, 24-26 August 2013, pp.170-

173.

17. M. Idris, A. Mehrabian, A. Hamou-Lhadj, R. Khoury, “Pattern-Based Trace Correlation

Technique to Compare Software Versions”, in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, M.

Kamel, F. Farray, H. Hagras (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1st edition,

vol. 7326, Springer, 2012, pp. 159-166. Third International Conference on Autonomous

and Intelligent Systems, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2012.

18. M. AlemZadeh, K. Abida, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Enhancement of the ROVER’s Voting

Scheme Using Pattern Matching”, in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, M. Kamel, F.

Farray, H. Hagras (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1st edition, vol. 7326,

Springer, 2012, pp. 167-174. Third International Conference on Autonomous and

Intelligent Systems, Aveiro, Portugal, June 2012.

19. R. Khoury, “A Learning Algorithm for Question Type Classification”, in the Proceedings

of the 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’11), vol. 1, Las

Vegas, USA, 18-21 July 2011, pp. 365-371.

20. R. Khoury, “Question Type Classification Using a Part-of-Speech Hierarchy”, in

Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, M. Kamel, F. Farray, W. Gueaieb, A. Khamis

(eds.), Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1st edition, vol. 6752, Springer, 2011, pp.

212-221. Second International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems,

Burnaby, Canada, June 2011

21. M. AlemZadeh, R. Khoury, F. Karray, “Exploring Wikipedia’s Category Graph for

Query Classification”, in Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, M. Kamel, F. Farray, W.

Gueaieb, A. Khamis (eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1st edition, vol. 6752,

Springer, 2011, pp. 222-230. Second International Conference on Autonomous and

Intelligent Systems, Burnaby, Canada, June 2011

22. R. Khoury, “Using Encyclopaedic Knowledge for Query Classification”, in the

Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI’10),

Volume 2, Las Vegas, USA, 12-15 July 2010, pp. 857-862.

23. R. Khoury, “Exploiting Wikipedia in Query Understanding Systems”, in the Proceedings

of the Fifth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2010),

Thunder Bay, Canada, 5-8 July 2010, pp. 292-297.

24. R. Khoury, “The Impact Of Wikipedia On Scientific Research”, in the Proceedings of the

Third International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA09),

Wrexham, UK, 8-11 September 2009, pp. 2-11.



25. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Keyword Extraction Rules Based on a Part-Of-Speech

Hierarchy”, in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Scientific Conference of the LORNET

Research Network (I2LOR-07), Montreal, Canada, 4-7 November 2007. This paper was

selected for publication in the International Journal of Advanced Media and

Communication.

26. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “Extracting and Representing Actions in Text Using

Possibility Theory”, in the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Scientific Conference of the

LORNET Research Network (I2LOR-06), Montreal, Canada, 9-11 November 2006.

27. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “A Methodology for Extracting and Representing

Actions in Texts”, in the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE 2006), Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 July 2006, p. 574-581.

28. R. Khoury, “An Enhanced Positioning Algorithm for a Self-Referencing Hand-Held 3D

Sensor”, in the Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot

Vision (CRV 2006), Québec City, Canada, 7-9 June 2006, p. 44.

29. R. Khoury, F. Karray, M. Kamel, “A Fuzzy Classifier for Natural Language Text using

Automatically-Learned Fuzzy Rules”, in the Proceedings of the second International

Conference on Artificial & Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and

Automation - International Conference on Machine Intelligence (ACIDCA-ICMI'2005),

Tozeur, Tunisia, 5-7 November 2005.

30. Y. Sun, R. Khoury, F. Karray, O. Basir, “Semantic Context Classification by Means of

Fuzzy Set Theory”, in the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on

Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'05), Wuhan,

China, 30 October – 1 November 2005, pp. 250-255.

Book Chapters

1. R. Khoury, R. Khoury, W. Hamou-Lhadj, “Microtext Processing”, in the Encyclopedia of

Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), Reda Alhajj and Jon Rokne (ed.),

Springer, August 2014, ISBN: 978-1-4614-6169-2, pp. 894-904. Reprinted in the

Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM), Reda Alhajj and Jon

Rokne (ed.), Springer, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4939-7130-5, pp. 1301-1311.

2. C. Wei, R. Khoury, and S. Fong, “Recommendation Systems for Web 2.0 Marketing”, in

Studies in Big Data Volume 3: Data Mining for Service, Katsutoshi Yada (ed.), Springer,

2014, ISBN: 978-3-642-45252-9, pp 171-196.

Others

1. D. T. Vo, R. Khoury, “Language Identification on Massive Datasets of Short Message

using an Attention Mechanism CNN”, arXiv:1910.06748 [cs.CL].



2. J. Mo, L. Lamontagne, R. Khoury, “Word embeddings and Global Preference for

Contextual Suggestion”, in Proceedings of TREC 2016, Gaithersburg, USA, 15-18

November 2016. (non-peer-reviewed conference)

3. R. Joganah, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, “Laval University at TREC Dynamic Domain

2016: Subtopic extraction focused on Named Entities”, in Proceedings of TREC 2016,

Gaithersburg, USA, 15-18 November 2016. (non-peer-reviewed conference)

4. J. Mo, L. Lamontagne, R. Khoury, “Laval University and Lakehead University

Experiments at TREC 2015 Contextual Suggestion Track”, in Proceedings of TREC

2015, Gaithersburg, USA, 18-20 November 2015. (non-peer-reviewed conference)

5. R. Joganah, R. Khoury, L. Lamontagne, “Laval University and Lakehead University at

TREC Dynamic Domain 2015: Combination of Techniques for subtopics coverage”, in

Proceedings of TREC 2015, Gaithersburg, USA, 18-20 November 2015. (non-peer-

reviewed conference)

6. K. Scott, L. Docksteader, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, A. Kim, “Northern Lights: Medical

Documentation System for Health Care Collaboration”, in the Fifth International

Conference on Digital Information Management, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 5-8 July 2010.

(abstract and workshop)

7. K. Scott, L. Docksteader, R. Benlamri, R. Khoury, A. Kim, “Improved IPC Through

Shared Documentation and Development of a Medical Domain Specific Language”, in

the Northern Health Research Conference, Sudbury, Ontario, 4-5 June 2010. (abstract

and presentation)

8. R. Khoury, Y. Sun, F. Karray, and M. Kamel, “Semantic Domain Classification by

Means of Possibility Distributions”, in I2LOR-05 E-Learning for the Future: From

Content to Services, Vancouver, Canada, 16-18 November 2005. (Peer-reviewed poster)

5. Presentations

Keynote speaker

1. R. Khoury, “Éducation en ligne et toxicité”, at the Colloque REFAD 2018, 24-25 May

2018.

Technical talks

1. R. Khoury, J. A. Gramaccia, “Sciences² : Unir les expertises dans la détection de la

désinformation”, at the Colloque sur l’intelligence Artificielle, 7-8 November 2019.

Organized by the École Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille.

2. R. Khoury, “ Prédire la toxicité en-ligne”, at the Rendez-vous IA Québec, 9 April 2018.

Sponsored by the Institute for Information Technologies and Societies (IITS).



3. R. Khoury, “L’IA pour combattre la toxicité en-ligne”, at UNIDEF 9 : La Guerre du

Futur, 1 March 2018. Sponsored by the Institut Militaire de Québec.

4. R. Khoury, “Qu’est-ce que vos métadonnées disent sur vous?”, at MégaData 2017,

Université Laval, 5 October 2017. Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in

Surveillance et construction sociale du risque.

5. R. Khoury, “Surveillance de cyber-criminels sur le Dark Web”, at the seminar Données

massive et innovation : un panorama, Université Laval, 31 October 2016. Sponsored by

the Institute for Information Technologies and Societies (IITS).

6. R. Khoury, “Statistical Natural Language Processing”, at Carleton University, 12 March

2015. Invited lecture in the course COMP 4106 Artificial Intelligence.

7. R. Khoury , “Phonetic Rendering of Written Text”, at the University of Ottawa, 11 March

2015. Sponsored by the TAMALE Group.

8. R. Khoury , “Phonetic Rendering of Written Text”, at the University of Waterloo, 4

March 2015. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence, and Systems, Man &

Cybernetics society Chapters of Kitchener-Waterloo.

9. R. Khoury, “Compréhension Phonétique du Texte Écrit”, at Université du Québec à

Chicoutimi (UQAC), 4 February 2015. Sponsored by the DIM.

10. R. Khoury, “Compréhension Phonétique du Texte Écrit”, at Laval University, 16 January

2015. Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

11. R. Khoury, “Microtext Understanding using Wikipedia”, at Concordia University, 6

January 2012. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Chapter of Montreal.

12. R. Khoury, “Query Classification using Wikipedia”, at the University of Waterloo, 21

January 2011. Sponsored by the PAMI Centre.

Non-technical talks

1. R. Khoury, “Les algorithmes de recommandation: techniques et défis”, at the seminar

series Les Idées Fructueuses, Université Laval, 16 October 2019.

2. R. Khoury, “Des algorithmes de recommandations racistes?”, at the seminar series Café

Scientifique, Le Mot de Tasse, 8 August 2019.

3. R. Khoury, “Introduction aux jeux vidéo avec Scratch”, for the Hour of Code, 4

December 2018. Sponsored by Partners In Research Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELn1THWcdTg

4. R. Khoury, “Profilage d’individus en politique (et plus)”, at the company R3D, 15

November 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELn1THWcdTg



5. R. Khoury, “Données massives en politique”, at the Cercle de la Garnison, 20 September

2018.

6. R. Khoury, “Anonymisation des données et protection de la vie privée”, at the

Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec, 15 march 2018.

7. R. Khoury, J.-F. Haince, “Santé et toxicité dans les communautés en ligne”, at Objectif

numérique 2017 : vers des sociétés numériques et durables, Université Laval, 30 October

2017. Sponsored by the Institute for Information Technologies and Societies (IITS).

8. R. Khoury, “Langage dans les données massives”, at Qu’est-ce que le big data peut faire

pour vous, Université Laval, 25 October 2017. Sponsored by the Public Chair AELIÉS.

9. R. Khoury, “L’intelligence artificielle pour lutter contre la toxicité sur le web”, at the Pint

of Science Festival, Le Cercle, 15 May 2017.

10. R. Khoury, “Anonymisation des données et protection de la vie privée”, at CÉGEP

Limoilou, 3 May 2017. Invited lecture in the course Technique Informatique.

11. R. Khoury, “Données personnelles, entre anonymisation et surveillance”, at the seminar

series Les Rencontres du Numérique, Gabrielle-Roy Library, 23 February 2017.

Sponsored by the Institute for Information Technologies and Societies (IITS). This talk

was the topic of an interview on CBC’s Première Heure program, 20 February 2017.

6. Research

External Funding

1. NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, $1,304,350, 2019-2024

(industrial partner: La Capitale Assurances et Services Financiers).

2. NSERC Engage Plus Grant, $25,000, 2018 (industrial partner: La Capitale Assurances

Générales).

3. NSERC Engage Grant, $25,000, 2018 (industrial partner: B-CITI).

4. NSERC Collaborative Research and Development Grant, $104,348, 2017-2020

(industrial partner: Thales Research & Technology Canada).

5. MITACS Accelerate Cluster, $1,693,333, 2017-2021 (industrial partner: Two Hat

Security).

6. NSERC Engage Grant, $25,000, 2017 (industrial partner: La Capitale Assurances

Générales).

7. NSERC Engage Grant, $25,000, 2015 (industrial partner: Thales Research & Technology

Canada).

8. DND/NSERC Research Partnership Grants (primary investigator: L. Lamontagne,

industrial partner: Fujitsu Research), $65,216, 2013-2015.

9. OCE Connections, $3,490, 2011.

10. NSERC Discovery Grant, $75,000, 2013-2018.



11. Northern Ontario Academic Medicine Association (NOAMA) AHSC AFP Innovation

Fund (primary investigator: A. Kim): $97,392, 2011-2013.

12. NWO Innovation Center ADVANCE Early Stage Innovation Assistance (industrial

partner: Bitcold Technology inc.), $8,500, 2010.

13. OCE Connections (industrial partner: Electrodynamics inc.), $3,500, 2010.

14. OPIC Proof of Principle (Phase II), $25,000, 2010.

15. NOSM (primary investigator: R. Benlamri), $36,000, 2010.

16. OCE Connections (industrial partner: Electrodynamics inc.), $3,500, 2009.

Research Interests

Fundamental Research: Natural Language Processing, Data Mining and Information

Retrieval, Big Data Analytics, Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, Machine

Learning.

Applications: Microblog analysis, Question-answering, Imbalanced data processing.

Awards and Recognitions

The Word embeddings and Global Preference for Contextual Suggestion project achieved

the top performance in the TREC 2016 Contextual Suggestion track, out of 30

international submissions.

The Combination of Techniques for subtopics coverage project achieved the top

performance in the TREC 2015 Dynamic Domain track, out of 32 international

submissions.

The Kintrol project was a finalist at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013, World Citizenship

category.

The project Electric Bus Management System was a finalist at the OCE Discovery 2011

competition, placing it in the top-15 out of 350 projects in Ontario.

The Northern Lights project was a finalist in the ImagiNation Challenge 2011 organized

by Canada Health Infoway, placing it in the top-50 in Canada.

7. Graduate Student Supervision

1. Éloi Brassard-Gourdeau, “Toxicité et Sentiment : Comment l’étude des sentimentspeut

aider la détection de toxicité”, M.Sc. in Computer Science, graduation year: 2019.

2. Robin Joganah, “Recherche d’information dynamique pour domaines complexes”, M.Sc.

in Computer Science, graduation year: 2018.

3. Shan Zong, “Local and Global Influence on Twitter”, M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer

Engineering, graduation year: 2016.



4. Lige Gan, “Improved Sentiment Classification by Multi-model Fusion”, M.Sc. in

Electrical and Computer Engineering, graduation year: 2016.

5. Naeem Nematollahi, “Key Duplicating Software using Digital Image Processing”, M.Sc.

in Electrical and Computer Engineering, graduation year: 2011.

8. Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Databases models and languages for engineers, Advanced databases, Big Data Analysis and

Processing, Degree Project, Signal Processing for Software Engineers, Database Systems,

Principles of Operating Systems, Numerical Methods and Modelling, Software Design II,

Data Management and Information Systems, Software Design and Testing, Applied Artificial

Intelligence, Soft Computing, Digital Signal and Image Processing

Graduate Courses

Advanced databases, Big Data Analysis and Processing, Digital Signal and Image Processing,

Statistical Natural Language Processing, Soft Computing

Teaching Awards

Winner of the 2012 Contribution to Teaching Award at Lakehead University.

9. Professional Activities

Membership in Research and Professional Groups

Vice-President, Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association (CAIAC).

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Lakehead University.

Affiliated researcher at the Big Data Research Centre (CRDM), Université Laval.

Affiliated researcher at the Group for Research in Artificial Intelligence of Laval

(GRAIL), Université Laval.

Affiliated researcher at the Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

(CPAMI), University of Waterloo.

Member of the ACM.

Member of CAIAC.

Ingénieur (Ing.), Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec, License number 130319.

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Professional Engineers Ontario, License number

100152469.

Editorial Positions

Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Web Data Mining of the Journal of Emerging

Technologies in Web Intelligence, vol. 4 no. 3, August 2012.



Guest Editor for the Special Issue on advances in artificial intelligence in Canada of the

journal Computational Intelligence, vol. 34 no. 2, May 2018.

Associate editor for the journal Computational Intelligence.

Conference and Workshop Organization

Program co-chair for the 29th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Victoria,

Canada, 31 May-3 June 2016.

Special Session co-chair in Intelligent Knowledge Management for the 2012 International

Conference on Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS 2012), Aveiro, Portugal, 25-27 June

2012.

Poster Session Judge for the 2011 Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems, University

of Waterloo, Ontario, 1-2 December 2011.

Track Chair for the Second International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent

Systems (AIS 2011), Burnaby, British Columbia, 21-23 June 2011.

Local Arrangement Chair, Technical Program Committee member, Organization

Committee member, for the 5th International Conference on Digital Information

Management (ICDIM’2010), Lakehead University, Ontario, 5-8 July 2010.

Organization Committee member for the UW Multimedia Mining and Knowledge

Discovery Workshop, University of Waterloo, Ontario, 17-18 October 2007.

Organization Committee member for the UW and IEEE Kitchener-Waterloo Section Joint

Workshop on Knowledge and Data Mining, University of Waterloo, Ontario, 30-31

October 2006.

10. External Activities

Member of the Rotary Club of Thunder Bay (Fort William), 2009 to 2016.

o The website I developed for the club earned District-level awards in 2013 and

2015.

o Member of Board of Directors, 2011-2013.

o Club President, 2013-2014.

Member of “Ohm Base”, Thunder Bay’s first hackerspace, 2011 to 2016.

o Founding member, 2011.

o Member of Board of Directors, 2015-2016.

Member of the Computer Programmer Program Advisory Committee, Confederation

College, 2014 to 2016.

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